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Century Watch – Fall 2016
This year in history: 1516 It always sounds better in Latin. “Novum Instrumentum Omne” or “The Entire New Testament” is the name Deciderius Erasmus gives to the first published Greek New Testament, printed in 1516. And according to Erasmus, the...
Set Apart – Fall 2016
bacon is my beatrice, Roman selfie, Angie Brennan, through the looking glass, goldfish, low life, what next
The Unfortunate “Liberal Arts Education”
Fall 2016 What's in a word? There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. —C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Dig up a treasure, and you have to clean off some mud. The first words I heard when I asked, “What...
Starting a Mock Trial Team
by Jeanette Faulkner | Fall 2016 Ten Steps to Starting a Mock Trial Team As my husband’s job kept us moving over the past 15 years, I became a mock trial fairy starting new mock trial programs at four ACCS schools. Some of my teams competed at regional,...
Common Core
Fall 2016 Common Core Informational Resources The Common Core's Five-Way Power Play The Common Core and the Classical Tradition Common Core: Facts & Fiction More on Paideia The Classical Christian SAT Advantage Your School and the Common...
Alumni Profile – Katie Bascom
The Path from an ACCS School to Notre Dame to Russia by Jeanette Faulkner | Spring 2016 Katie Bascom at the top of the world There’s no telling where a classical Christian education can land you. It landed Katie Bascom three degrees from the Arctic Circle in Ukhta,...
Live the Difference – Spring 2016
Restoring the Habits of the Heart in American Education by Brittany Corona | Spring 2016 The real fix for American education The size and scope of the federal government has ballooned since the early 20th century. The advent of the bureaucratic state erodes the...
The Good, the Bad, and the Obedient
DIY Parenting by Rachel Jankovic When the time rolls around for us to talk to the teachers about how our kids have been doing at school, there are only two things we really want to hear: 1) they have been obedient, and 2) they have been cheerful about it. Don’t...
The Carpool Lane – Spring 2016
Late Again! Spring 2016 Unexpected thoughts for the drive I find morning prayer easy. Today is no exception. MORNING PRAYER: Good heavens! Where has the time gone? It’s already 6:00? Where on God’s green earth are my glasses? There ... oh for goodness’ sake, it’s...
How other cultures help us recover our own
How other cultures help us recover our own by David Goodwin | Spring 2016 “Well, ... I don’t know. That, you’d have to convince me of.” This wry and skeptical reaction from a teen working on her senior thesis said volumes. What statement of mine could have...
And Can It Be? New Hymns!
The blind Irish monk, Dallan Forgail, penned “Be Thou My Vision” in the sixth century. Today, Irish hymn writers Keith and Kristyn Getty emerge in his footsteps with songs like “In Christ Alone.”
The Great Stories, Retold, Form a People
Lucas borrowed much from a time long ago, but not so far away.
World-Changing Education on a Global Scale
They knew they would have to educate as well as provide.
Light of the Nations
What is it about the classical method that is appealing to Indonesians?
Culture Grip – Summer 2016
Summer 2016 In the News Catholic education body recognizes classical education as one of the biggest trends in 2016. A major advocacy group for the two million school children in Roman Catholic schools noticed something: classical education is a strong and...
